[Milsurplus] OT Aerospace Archive to Donate

[J. Forster]

Certainly possible.

A modern microwave is not nearly as good as my Amana RR-10, nor will it
last nearly as long.

-John

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> I also believe many companies don't want anyone to remember the
> excellent products they made in the past and expect that kind of quality
> and service today.  Employers and supervisors of today don't want the
> workers to know about or embrace quality. By keeping them in the dark,
> it is easy to get them to play along with the rush to the bottom.
> Trying to devise ways to destroy all history and discourage study is
> critical for their agenda.
>
>    Bruce Gentry,      KA2IVY                                      "Don't
> Stop Believing"
>
> David Stinson wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mike Feher" <n4fs at eozinc.com>
>>
>>
>>> As Jim said, it is only stuff.
>>> People are what is really  important ....
>>>
>>
>> Respectfully, Mike-
>> You're correct, and "people" is my point; they are what
>> counts, and who a distinctive people and culture are
>> is defined by their history, and that history is embodied
>> in their documents and artifacts.  Without their "stuff,"
>> they're just more anonymous faces in the herd.
>>
>> One need not build gas chambers to commit "genocide."
>> Ask Native Americans about the "civilizing acts" of
>> the 1800s; the "stuff" they used to define themselves-
>> medicine bundles, totems, talismans that had carried
>> their memories and stories in some cases for centuries,
>> were put to the fire.  Their children were removed to
>> what was then the equivailent of our political re-education
>> camps (read "colleges") and forced to "learn about the
>> future, not the past."   With the destruction of the artifacts
>> that defined them as a distinctive culture and people,
>> whole nations and peoples effectively ceased to exist,
>> absorbed into today's dull, gray lemming herd, with only
>> vague shadows and fragmentary memories of what
>> made them a unique people.
>> And they are not alone- Ask the old Soviets about
>> the peoples they erased.   Ask the Romans and
>> the Egyptions.  Ask the modern Afgans about their
>> attempt to erase the Buddist past in their land.
>>
>> Most stuff is, indeed, just "stuff;"  I sincerely hope that
>> no copies of "American Idol" survive to shame our time.
>> But documentation of the progress of technology,
>> and especially that of progress in space exploration,
>> is special to Western civilization;
>> the rest of Mankind steals most of it from us.
>> It defines us as a people.  Sending it to the flames
>> is a shortsighted and stupid crime; an abomination.
>> If you could corner one of the little Napoleons in
>> the establishment who decided "individuals can't
>> have any of it" and asked them to justify that policy,
>> they could not give you a reasoned reply; they will
>> invent lame excuses or quote even more arcane
>> and pointless regulations which,
>> when all the horse crap is washed away,
>> really mean:  "I'm in charge and I say so, pissant."
>> The VP mentioned is a minion of that plague, which
>> will certainly plunge Mankind into the next Dark Age:
>> an educated idiot in a postion of authority.
>>
>> 73 DE Dave AB5S
>>
>>
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